A practical English Grammar 2nd Edition

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This book deals with the construction of English from elementary to advanced level and is intended for intermediate and advanced students of English as a foreign language. Though written chiefly for adults it is suitable also for senior forms in schools. It is hoped also that teachers of English as a foreign language may find it useful as a reference book.

Special features of the book are:

1 A very comprehensive index, which should make this Grammar easy to use
as a book of reference.

2 A very careful and detailed treatment of those points which students of English
find particularly difficult, e.g. auxiliary verbs, the use of the present perfect
and simple past tenses, the difference between certain similar words such as
*during' and 'for', &c.

3 A new treatment of the future.

4 Indication where necessary of the difference between ordinary conversational
usage and strict grammatical form.

5 A list of over 300 of the more important of the verb + preposition/adverb
combinations (e.g. give up, take off, &c.).

6 A chapter on spelling rules.

7 The use of the simplest possible English for all explanations so as to present
the minimum difficulty to students who have not yet learned to read English
easily.

8 Copious examples in good modern English.

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